Italian biologist Alessandro Fantin, together with colleagues at University College London (UCL), has co-authored a study published in the journal Nature on the discovery of new stem cells that can help rebuild blood vessels. Fantin, who spent 11 years at UCL, recently returned to Italy to continue his research at the University of Milan. The study...

Innovation Days 2018 takes place on October 12th in San Francisco, right on the aftermath of ITA's participation to LAUNCH Scale 2018, where Italian startups are offered valuable opportunities to engage with leading American counterparts and present their innovative ideas. The event is organized by the Italian Trade Agency via its Los Angeles offic...

L’Italy-America Chamber of Commerce of Texas “a caccia” di innovazione in Emilia Romagna. Nella prossima settimana una delegazione sarà in visita nel nostro territorio, per incontrare alcune delle più interessanti start up della Regione, selezionate dal comitato scientifico dell’Incubatore Inlab di Piacenza. L’iniziativa è stata presentata in Camer...

Il futuro è nelle mani di start up italiane che usano capitali esteri. E’ quanto emerso oggi nel corso del workshop ‘Best Scholarship e Open Innovation - How to fully leverage start ups to benefit the italian industrial system’, organizzato da Rds 100% Grandi Successi e da Italian Business & Investment Initiative (IB&II), un'organizzazione indipend...

La più grande organizzazione mondiale di scienze della Terra e scienze spaziali, composta da oltre 60.000 membri che rappresentano oltre 140 diversi Paesi, onora 33 individui eccezionali. Ogni anno infatti l’American geophysical union (Agu) premia uomini di scienza per i loro eccezionali risultati, contributi e servizio alla comunità di scienze del...

The first woman to receive a bionic hand with a sense of touch has pet a cat and grabbed objects that she was able to realize were soft, hard, round or square, feeling the same things she did prior to a workplace accident in December 2016 in which she lost her left hand. "I felt an extremely natural feeling that I had not felt for two and a half ye...

The Italian rail infrastructure administrator Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane has unveiled its new line of regional trains that it says will be rolled out across the country within five years. It started with Swing and Jazz, but now Rock and Pop have joined the groove. The Italian train operator is rolling out a fleet of new trains, named after music...

Naples is a city with a reputation: it has pizza, devil-may-care drivers, and mafia clans known as the Camorra. But in the past few years this southern Italian city has also been fostering a growing community of tech start-ups and app creators. The hope is it will change not just Naples' reputation, but also its fortunes and so reverse a brain drai...

On September 13, 2018 the Embassy of Italy in Washington DC hosted an event on cooperation in the space field and on the new frontiers in terms of investments, innovation, and international collaboration. “Space Economics: challanges and opportunities, Investment, Innovation and International partnerships” was organized in collaboration with the It...

Piccole medie imprese, start up, scambi commerciali nel segno della ricerca e dell’innovazione per lo sviluppo dell’industria agroalimentare e delle scienze della vita. Si è appena conclusa la missione istituzionale negli Usa, guidata dal presidente della Regione Emilia-Romagna, Stefano Bonaccini, e si può già fare un primo bilancio della serrata d...